Search for Dozens of Missing College Students in Mexico Leads to Human Remains, 17 New Suspects
Phone-call analysis led investigators to 17 new suspects as prosecutors say police and cartel ties remain central to the case.
- On Monday, special prosecutor Mauricio Pazaran announced that authorities identified 17 new suspects in the 2014 disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Mexico. The identification stems from a new analysis of phone calls made the night the students went missing.
- Police stopped the students in the town of Iguala while they were traveling from Guerrero to a Mexico City protest on September 26, 2014. Investigation findings suggest they were handed to the Guerreros Unidos cartel.
- Pazaran noted that one witness "participated directly in the events, but was a minor at the time." Authorities also discovered an illegally obtained weapon and bone fragments at a funeral home.
- No one has been convicted in the case, though 168 people are being prosecuted with 130 currently in pretrial detention. The affair continues to traumatize Mexico twelve years after the students vanished.
- Demonstrators held a march on Saturday in Mexico City to demand justice, marking the 12th anniversary of the tragedy. Mexico remains plagued by cartel violence that has left over half a million people missing or killed in recent decades.
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Thanks to the re-examination of telephone calls made on the night of the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, on 26 September 2014, in the state of Guerrero, the investigators identified 17 new people. The investigation suggests that the students were arrested by police officers, who allegedly handed them over to a local cartelTwelve years after 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School disappeared, allegedly abducted by drug traffi…
Seventeen more people are being investigated, the prosecutor's office announced on Monday in this case where 168 people are being prosecuted. Investigations suggest that the students were arrested by police officers, who allegedly handed them over to a local cartel.
Authorities in Mexico identify 17 new people involved in the Ayotzinapa case after tracking calls between police and posters.
All 17 persons were identified to deepen their possible relationship with the facts.
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